There is a video that is currently making its way around the internet in viral fashion. It’s adorable, tear-jerking and really happy and it manages all this within the very short time of 37 seconds. It tells the story of an 11-year-old boy, Logan learning that he is about to become a big brother.

My son’s reaction

You see my child’s reaction was also over the top precious when he heard he was becoming a sibling. He was jumping up and down excited, promising to help and nervous about the responsibility all at the same time. Except of course his brother was rather furrier, being a dog and all.

It was a big deal for my son to become older sibling to a dog mainly because he didn’t have human sisters and brothers that he had to share with or consider at any time at all. His dog was his first lesson in real sharing of his parent’s attention and of the responsibility of being older – he needed to help feed, clean up and walk the puppy. He also had to wait his turn while we ooh-ed and aah-ed over the dog and spent an inordinate amount of time rubbing the very soft fur on his belly.

But just like Logan in this video is going to make a great brother, so to is my son a great brother to his four-legged sibling.

The difficulty of trying to conceive

As I watch the clip on repeat just to see Logan’s eye’s lighting up, I can’t help putting myself behind the scenes and wondering just how long he’s been waiting for this news. Logan’s parents are 29 and he was born a month after they graduated high school. They weren’t even sure whether they’d be able to have another child. And Logan is 11 so the age difference between the two kids is big.

For so many parents who struggle to conceive the joy that Logan shows is what it really feels like to know that you are finally creating a family.